Brazilian scientists have developed an HIV vaccine and planned to test it on monkeys by late 2013. The early stage of the newly developed vaccine aimed to maintain the low viral level of an infected person rather than eliminate it.
Ryan Inoyori
Aug 06, 2013
Smartphone maker Apple Inc gets tangled in yet another controversy, this time involving its suppliers Foxconn Technology Group and Unimicron Technology, alleged to have been dumping toxic wastewater from heavy metals into China's local rivers.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Aug 06, 2013
Experts and spectators are anticipating the 2013 Comet ISON to be the “Comet of the Century” as it shines brightly comparable to a full moon while making its closest approach to Earth on December 26, 2013. However, astronomer Ignacio Ferrín of the University of Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia claims that Comet ISON may not be an amazing spectacle due to its recent behavior.
Jenalyn Villamarin
Aug 02, 2013
Another UFO sighting was reported last Saturday, July 28, which took place in the Netherlands. The UFO Sightings Daily reported that a mysterious orb hovering on a lake baffled a group of young people who witnessed the rare phenomenon.
Jenalyn Villamarin
Aug 02, 2013
97 per cent of the animal kingdom is not monogamous. While it may be natural to be polygamous in the animal world, it’s also natural for some animals to eat their own offspring! Isn't it time these celebrities evolved to overcome some of their most primitive urges?
Rima Pundir
Aug 02, 2013
Anonymous witnesses have been reporting UFO activities in Canada this month of July. One witness filmed the mysterious lights moving about in the dark skies above northern Whitby in Ontario, Canada on July 26 while the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database revealed two more UFO sightings over Hamilton, Ontario.
Jenalyn Villamarin
Aug 01, 2013
The Canadian province of Manitoba will ban in 2014 the use of coal and petroleum coke for heating to cut its greenhouse gas emissions. It will also collect an emissions tax on industrial users of the two commodities other than heating.
Vittorio Hernandez
Aug 01, 2013
A new research from Australia revealed that small dose of testosterone can delay muscle aging
Athena Yenko
Jul 31, 2013
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officially released the dazzling image of the 2013 Comet ISON that Hubble Space Telescope was able to capture last April 30, 2013. The image shows Comet ISON speeding its way close to planet Earth with a visible tail and spectacular background.
Jul 30, 2013
A NASA spacecraft, Karen Fox, captured on video various images of a massive hole in the sun's atmosphere. The solar anomaly known as a coronal hole was estimated to be almost a quarter of the sun's size and reported to be emitting solar gas and other material into space.
Reissa Su
Jul 30, 2013
A video, now getting more hits in sharing sites such as YouTube, is disturbing those who had viewed the images because of its disturbing cruelty to animals. The short video showed a mother kangaroo show twice by an arrow on the spine and leg.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jul 30, 2013
French researchers have discovered one of the largest viruses, the Pandoravirus, known to science in a Melbourne’s La Trobe University pond. The Pandoravirus has been named after the myth of Pandora’s Box because of its potential for great scientific consequences.
Reissa Su
Jul 29, 2013
A study by German and Swiss scientists published in the journal Nature Geoscience has disclosed that earthquakes not only trigger landslides and tsunamis and do massive damages to infrastructure, not to mention lives lost. They also trigger the release of damaging greenhouse gas methane from underground reservoirs.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Jul 29, 2013
Since the early days of space travel, a consistent complaint has been of drinking coffee in a cup. It was not an easy task for astronomers to have a cup of coffee, while they were in space. Pouring hot coffee into cups is a dangerous task. Fluids behave in a very different way outside of Earth's atmosphere. Drinking coffee in the microgravity environs of space is a tough proposition.
Jamelle Agbuis
Jul 29, 2013
A joint military mission by the U.S. and Australia with about 30,000 soldiers was forced to abandon bombs from an aircraft after failing to land their fighter jets safely. The US Navy told the Australian government that it would offer any help required to remove the bombs
mistakenly dropped inside the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef marine park .
Jacob Cherian
Jul 29, 2013
HIV/AIDS has no cure known to date and WHO recommends early treatment for patients to prevent spreading the disease. Several techniques have been recently reported which treated few people; however, the effectiveness is as high as the danger it imposes. So, if you are not aware of it, here are 15 myths and facts about HIV/AIDS.
Ryan Inoyori
Jul 29, 2013
China, the world's chief emitter of carbon dioxide greenhouse gases, is poised to invest 1.7 trillion yuan (AU$298 billion) to remedy the growing air smog pollution problem lording over its horizons which has killed thousands and sickened hundreds over the years. Specifically, the amount will be used to institute programmes and measures to combat the smog situation in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Jul 26, 2013
The set used in the 1990s movie Jurassic Park would look like a miniature model when Australian mining magnate Clive Palmer builds the world's largest dinosaur park.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jul 26, 2013
Researchers from the University of St Andrews in Scotland discovered that marine mammals use a unique whistle to identify one another. The proof of this is that the animals responded when they heard their unique call - which is similar to the function of a human name - played back to them.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jul 25, 2013
According to a report released on Thursday by the US Department of Energy, rising temperatures can reduce production at power plants. Power plants may reduce their power generation or shut-down temporarily.
Jamelle Agbuis
Jul 24, 2013
Medical researchers are closing in to find a cure for HIV/AIDS and the medical world formulated the possible output from many positive results and development globally. The United Nations's main goal is to halt and reverse the spread of AIDS by 2015.
Ryan Inoyori
Jul 24, 2013
Our blue planet, Earth smiled from far away distance of Saturn and posed to the wide-angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The image captured Saturn's rings and Earth with its moon in the same frame.
Ryan Inoyori
Jul 24, 2013
Scientists have discovered a fossilized tooth of the biggest and oldest aquatic reptile in Australia in Gippsland.
Reissa Su
Jul 23, 2013
One of the highlights of a tour of New Zealand's Parliament building in Wellington, more popularly called the Beehive, is a short video clip on the building being earthquake-proof.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jul 23, 2013
Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969 and nearly 600 million television viewers watched the historical event live across the world, including a five-year-old Jeff Bezos, now the CEO of Amazon. A day before the 44th anniversary, Bezos disclosed that the two rocket engines that his team had found from the depths of the Atlantic are from Apollo 11.
Anshu Shrivastava
Jul 23, 2013
Medical researchers have found a new way fight HIV/AIDS by using bone marrow treatment and cell engineering. The so-called Berlin patient opened a new hope towards possible cure and end the war against a worldwide epidemic.
Ryan Inoyori
Jul 22, 2013
A 12-year old boy with HIV and leukaemia died after a historic cell transplant at the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital aimed to get the same result of three men cured of HIV and blood cancers.
Ryan Inoyori
Jul 22, 2013
Two separate men "cured" from HIV after a surprising side-effect from cancer treatments and encouraged researchers and medical experts to look into possible potential method as HIV/AIDS treatment.
Ryan Inoyori
Jul 22, 2013
A strange horned dinosaur from the Cretaceous period was discovered in Utah that is believed to have evolved in North America. Meanwhile in Florida, a tooth of the Tyrannosaurus rex was found in a tail of a plant-eating dinosaur
Ria Kristina Torrente
Jul 19, 2013
Sun observers will be treated to some spectacular solar effects in the coming days as waves of particles from an enormous coronal mass ejection (CME) would pass Earth within three days. The solar phenomenon is called a geomagnetic storm, which is a normal event and would not directly harm humans.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jul 18, 2013
